Baljinder Kaur (politician)

Balj Kaur
Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly[2]
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017[1]
Preceded by	Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu
Constituency	Talwandi Sabo
Personal details
Born	(1986-09-14) 14 September 1986 (age 38) Jaga Ram Tirath Talwandi Sabo, Punjab
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party
Spouse	Sukhraj Singh
Parent(s)	Darshan Singh and Ranjit Kaur

Baljinder Kaur is an Indian politician and member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Talwandi Sabo Assembly constituency. She is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Personal life

Kaur did her M. Phil. from Punjabi University, Patiala in 2009. Before entering politics she was a professor of English at Mata Gujri College at Fatehgarh Sahib.[3] She married Sukhraj Singh in February 2019; he is also a politician from Aam Aadmi Party.[4] She has one daughter.

Political career

In 2011 Kaur joined the Indian anti-corruption movement and in 2012 joined Aam Aadmi Party. The first time she contested bypoll election from Talwandi Sabo Assembly constituency in 2014 but lost the election.[5]

Member of Legislative Assembly

First term (2017-2022)

She was elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly in the 2017 election she defeated Jeetmohinder Singh of Shiromani Akali Dal with a margin of 19,293 votes.

In the 2019 Indian general election in Punjab she was declared the candidate from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency by the party.[6] However she lost the election and stood at third place.

She was the president of the women's wing of AAP Punjab.[7]

Committee assignments of 15th Punjab Legislative Assembly

• Member (2020–21) Committee on Government Assurances[8]
• Member Library Committee[9]
• Member Committee on Subordinate Legislation[9]

Second term (2022-present)

The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[10]

Committee assignments of 16th Punjab Legislative Assembly

• Chairperson (2022–23) Committee on Questions & References[11]

Electoral Performance for Punjab Assembly

Assembly Election, 2017: Talwandi Sabo[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Baljinder Kaur	54,553	42.67
	INC	Khusbaz Singh Jatana	35260	27.58
	SAD	Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu	34473	26.96
	BSP	Harjindar Singh Mithan	1346	1.05
	NOTA	None of the above	578	0.45
Majority
Turnout			128426	85.99
Registered electors			149,354	[13]
	AAP gain from SAD		Swing

Assembly election, 2022: Talwandi Sabo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Baljinder Kaur[14]	48,753	37.04
	INC	Khushbaz Singh Jatana [15]
	SAD
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			15252	11.58
Turnout
Registered electors				[16]
	AAP hold

References

1. "Baljinder Kaur won from talwandi sabo". Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via www.india.com.
2. "punjabassembly member". punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
3. aamaadmiparty.org
4. "AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur engaged to Party youth wing leader". The Times of India.
5. "Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu wins talwandi sabo bypoll election".
6. "AAP names talwandi sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur as its Bathinda candidate".
7. Goyal, Divya (12 March 2022). "The Chosen 13: 'Padwoman', Moga's doctor among Punjab's women MLAs". The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
8. "vidhanSabha". 14 May 2021. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
9. Punjab Bio-profile of Assembly
10. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
11. "Vidhan Sabha". punjabassembly.nic.in.
12. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
13. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
14. "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Aam Aadmi Party candidates and their constituencies". The Financial Express. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
15. "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
16. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu	Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Talwandi Sabo Assembly constituency 2017 –	Incumbent
Aam Aadmi Party political offices
Preceded by -	Member of National Executive Committee Aam Aadmi Party – present	Incumbent